Born, Umuahia, Nigeria
Lives and works in Abuja, Nig.
Education
2017
KLEIN ARTIST WORKS (KAW 20, SPRING 2017)
Professional development in art
2011 – 2012
FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY, CORNWALL, UK
MA Curatorial Practice (Curating Contemporary Art)
2004 – 2006
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA (UNN)
MFA Sculpture1998 – 2002
1998-2002
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA (UNN)
BA (Hons. Painting, Major)
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Special Solo Feature at the Abuja Art Fair
The Exhibition Pavilion, Abuja
2022
Announcing Beauty, Mercy, Kindness, and Love
Red Door Gallery, Lagos
2021
The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City
CCA, Lagos
2020
The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City
Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Abuja
2019
I Am the Light
A multi-dimensional public art project carried out in collaboration with children and teens
Divine Mercy School, Asokoro, Abuja
2015
I Learnt This
Public art intervention across 3 locations, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2014
Ask Yourself
Public art intervention across 4 locations, Abuja
2009
Seven Days Live Art
Dalsasen, Dale I Sunnfjord, Norway
2008
Africa West
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
2007
Europe at Financial Times
Babel Art Gallery, Trondheim, Norway
Select Group Exhibitions
2026
International Sculpture Centre / Artsy Exhibition
Online
Just Because the Lizard Nods His Head Doesn’t Mean He is in Agreement
Kolanut Gallery, 2 Ajayi Crowther, Asokoro, Abuja
2025
Abuja Art Fair, 1.0
The Exhibition Pavilion, Abuja
In Between an ‘Abuja Open House’ exhibition
The Nordic, Abuja
Westbund Art & Design (Fair), with ShanghART Gallery (Booth No. 1C03)
West Bund International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
International Sculpture Centre / Artsy Exhibition
Online
2024
All The Images Will Disappear
Co-curated by Philippe Pirotte and ShanghART Gallery
ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai, China
Slant: Perspectives on Sculpture
A juried exhibition of Artsy and the ISC
Gallery 14C, Jersey City, NJ, USA
International Sculpture Centre / Artsy Exhibition
Online
2023
Stones Last A Wee Bit Longer (Dusk Art Festival, The CERA Project)
Touring project — Portugal, Spain, Alba-Scotland, Iceland, Nigeria
Krisis (Art Theorema #3)
Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy
2021
The Invincible Hands
Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos
My Super Power
Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA
Off The Wall
Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA
13th Annual Juried Member Exhibition and Contest
Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA
2020
Summer Blues
Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, USA
2018
LineGuage: Textual Imagery / Linear Allegory
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
2017
Colourful Africa
MOESHEN Contemporary Art Gallery
Penthouse Floor, Zen Building, Life Camp, Abuja
Nkoli Ka (Nsukka School after 5 years)
Touring exhibition — UNN, Nsukka; Abuja; Lagos
2015
Hacking Conflict (Equator #3)
Biennale Jogjakarta, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Anya Fulu Ugo
Exhibition in honour of El Anatsui & Obiora Udechukwu
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
2014
Nigeria / Roots: Contemporary Artists from Nigeria
Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy
National Art Competition
An African Artists Foundation exhibition, Lagos
Together Again
National Gallery of Art, Nigeria, Kaduna
Playing With Chance
Showing El Anatsui archives and works of his female mentees
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
2013
From Within
An Art Fair of the National Gallery of Art, Kaduna
2012
We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today
A cultural Olympiad exhibition of the London 2012 Olympic
Manchester Art Gallery, UK
2010
I am Bahamian. I eat Conch Salad
Art experience / intervention with visual artists and fashion designers
The Hub Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas
RAVY (Rencontres D’arts Visuels De Yaoundé)
Festival, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2009
FIAC Alger 2009
1st International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algiers
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algiers
International Art Expo Nigeria 2009
National Museum, Onikan, Lagos
2008
ARESUVA 2008
International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
Experimental Frontiers: Society Through the Eyes of South African and Nigerian Artists
Curated by Okechukwa Nwafor
Vansa Western Cape Space, South Africa
Art 4: Channel Four Television Corporation
London, UK
2007
Guest Artists’ Open Studio
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
MFA Graduation Exhibition
Department of Fine & Applied Arts
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN)
Make-Op / Zombification (Performing Anthropology)
Interdisciplinary theatre performance, workshop, and presentation
Goethe-Institut Lagos, Nigeria
2006
20th Century Art: a Story from Nigeria
An ‘Off Show’ at Dak’Art 2006
Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
2004
Afrika Heritage 2004
Pan African Circle of Artists (PACA)
French Cultural Centre, Enugu
Visual Orchestra
French Cultural Centre, Enugu
2003
Heritage
FCT Council for Arts and Culture exhibition, FCT, Abuja
2002
Women in Art Exhibition, A National Gallery of Modern Art Exhibition
National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos
Exhibition organized by Chinze Art Place
Abuja Sheraton Hotel, Abuja
Heritage, FCT Council for Arts and Culture
FCT Abuja
BA Hons. Award Exhibition, Department of Fine & Applied Arts
University of Nigeria, Nsukka,(UNN)
2001
Women in Art exhibition
FCT Council for Arts and Culture, Abuja
Footprints
Ana Gallery, UNN
Residencies
2015
Residency from the Yayasan Biennale
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2010
Popopstudios, funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, London
Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas,
2009
Nkd (Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen),
Norway, Grant & Residency from Nkd
2007
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Trondheim, Norway, Residency by Grant from the
United Nations and the Trondheim Kommune
2004
Aina Onabolu Studios, National Gallery of Art Lagos, Nigeria, funded by the
National Gallery of Art, Lagos
Grants, Awards, and Other Distinctions
2017
Scholarship
Klein Artist Works, Chicago, USA
2015
Grant
Yayasan Biennale Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2014
Jury Prize
African Artists Foundation National Art Competition
2012
Grant Award to graduating MA Art student
Falmouth University, UK
2009
Commonwealth Connections 2009
A Commonwealth Foundation Award for artistic excellence
2008
ARESUVA
Exhibition and grant award from the National Gallery of Art (Nigeria)
First African Regional Summit and Exhibition on Visual Arts (ARESUVA) ‘08
Abuja, Nigeria
2007
UNESCO Aschberg Artists Award
For artistic excellence in Art
